Police began pursuing Tyler Comstock of Boone after his father reported the truck stolen. The truck belonged to a lawn care company.

Ames Police Officer Adam McPherson pursued Comstock into the heart of ISU’s campus. During the chase, Comstock rammed McPherson’s car. The truck eventually stopped, but Comstock revved the engine and refused orders to turn it off.

McPherson fired six shots into the truck. Comstock died from two gunshot wounds, according to the Iowa state medical examiner’s office.

Tyler Comstock’s step-grandfather, Gary Shepley, 65, of Cambridge, said “hard, tough questions” need to be asked about the police’s actions.

Shepley said he keeps asking himself why police pursued an easily identifiable green-and-white lawn care truck into a busy part of campus. The family said police could have backed off and found the truck later.

“They’re professionals,” Shepley said. “They’re trained to handle these situations. And if they panic before they even know what’s going on, then ask yourself: What if it was your child?”

And why, Shepley asked, did an officer fire six rounds on a campus with innocent bystanders around, simply because Tyler Comstock refused orders to turn off the engine?

“So he didn’t shut the damn truck off, so let’s fire six rounds at him? We’re confused, and we don’t understand,” Shepley said.

If the cops wanted him to stop and if they must use guns they could of just shot the engine...

Agreed, the tires, the engine block, anything other than the person in this case because A) It's a child whose own parent called them to report a non-violent incident B) The victim was not an immediate threat to the police

On another note, when I first read this story and saw the name "Comstock", I thought of Bioshock: Infinite.

Playing Devil's advocate here, but he rammed the police at the very least 3 times with the truck/trailer and prior to being shot he was running into the side of the police car based on the dash cam footage. Is a 5,000lbs truck not a threat to people's safety? There are still other ways this could've been handled (ie. kid pulling over initially or the cops calling off the pursuit), but given the way he was driving it's not hard to imagine the threat he posed to pedestrians. I'm just curious if people would feel the same way had he killed someone in the crosswalk as he ran that red light.